JAKARTA - A unit of an ambulance that had just brought a patient from the Taiping Hospital in Malaysia skidded on the highway injuring the driver and a nurse.

The head of the Gerik Police, Supt Abdul Samad Othman, said the accident on Kilometer 60 of the Kuala Kangsar-Gerik Road at 4 am on Tuesday, June 23 local time, was allegedly due to the driver losing control of the vehicle.

"The ambulance driver and a nurse suffered minor injuries, while the other nurse was not injured. The injured victims have received further treatment, while the cause of the accident is still under investigation," he said, quoted by Bernama.

After the incident, an amateur video recording of 21 seconds related to this accident circulated on the Malaysian netizen's Facebook.

The footage of the overturned ambulance on the side of the road, with personnel from the Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) conducting a rescue operation at the scene.

The upload also showed a male victim trapped inside an ambulance.


The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)

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